1900 Labour Party General Election Manifesto Adequate Maintenance from National Funds for the Aged Poor Public Provision of Better Houses for the People Useful Work for the Unemployed Adequate Maintenance for Children No Compulsory Vaccination Public Control of the liquor Traffic Nationalisation of Land and Railways Relief of Local Rates by Grants from the National Exchequer Legislative Independence for all parts of the Empire Abolition of the Standing Army, and the Establishment of a Citizen Force The People to decide on Peace or War Graduated Income-Tax Shorter Parliaments Adult Suffrage Registration Reform Payment of Members The object of these measures is to enable the people ultimately to obtain the Socialisation of the Means of Production, Distribution, and Exchange, to be controlled by a Democratic State in the interests of the entire Community, and the Complete Emancipation of labour from the Domination of Capitalism and Landlordism, with the Establishment of Social and Economic Equality between the Sexes.